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There’s No Surviving Without Hope
Nicole Graev Lipson interviews Jerald Walker about his new essay collection, “Magically Black.”
Archive
Scored in the Key of Leisure
LARB presents an excerpt from Dorothy’s upcoming reissue of Renee Gladman’s “To After That (TOAF).”
What, Then, Is Natural?
Obi Kaufmann considers the coming of the modern megafire and many misconceptions about California’s land, in an excerpt from “The State of Fire.”
Shaking Up the Scene
Are YOU prepared for “The Big One”? Brittany Menjivar shelters in place at their second issue launch party in Koreatown.
Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out”
Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with Katherine Bucknell about her new biography of Christopher Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.
A Precarious, Provisional Order
Claire Foster reviews Daniel Saldaña París’s “Planes Flying over a Monster,” newly translated by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman.
Into the Bottomless Pit
Cory Oldweiler reviews Ellen Elias-Bursać’s new translation of Croatian author Damir Karakaš’s “Celebration.”
Out of the Closet, over the Hedge
Give Brandon Sward a home where butch lesbians roam, where a beard and top surgery display—a.k.a. the Tom of Finland House in Echo Park.
Myths Die Hard
Parker Hatley reviews Gerald Martin’s updated translation of the Guatemalan novel “Men of Maize” by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Give a Middle Way a Chance
Eamon McGrath reviews Ralph Hubbell’s new translation of Oğuz Atay’s story collection, “Waiting for the Fear.”
Life Buoys and Skin Tags
Robert Kiely reviews Timothy Thornton’s “Candles and Water.”
Coercion
In an excerpt from “By the Fire We Carry,” Rebecca Nagle explores the concept of “allotment”—and its repercussions.
When Art Evolves, We Evolve
Brendan Riley reviews Cisco Bradley’s “The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront.”
Danzy Senna’s “Colored Television”
Kate Wolf talks to Danzy Senna about her latest novel, “Colored Television.”
Gathering Intelligence: Chelsea Manning, the War on Terror, and the Trans Internet
Charlie Markbreiter analyzes Chelsea Manning as era-defining symbol, internet darling, and enemy of the state, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
I … Am Herman Melville!
Sam Weller details the tempestuous collaboration of Ray Bradbury and John Huston on the production of the 1956 movie “Moby Dick.”
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